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Sparks Electrical News March 2019

Industry 4.0 – smart new automation tools and technologies – is rapidly changing the face of manufacturing and industry around the world. Without a concerted effort to change industry processes and infrastructure, and upskill the workforce, South Africa risks falling behind the world in its efforts to become a player in the global manufacturing market. How- ever, new industry initiatives are emerging to address the skills short- fall and help propel South Africa into a smarter era of manufacturing.

Legrand’s Alpharex and MicroRex time switches are designed for easy programming and ensure high-clock precision in industrial commercial and domestic environments. The devices, with advanced time switch technology, are used...

Spazio Lighting prides itself on giving customers the best products, quality, service and experience. One of the services it strives to offer distributors and consumers is to make showrooms available...

Construction sites are harsh environments for instruments that need to give accurate results time after time, even if they have been dropped, kicked or stepped on. Fluke construction instruments, which...

ONESTO is a Sino-European joint venture company that boasts fully automated production and testing systems. All ONESTO products are manufactured in accordance with international standards and the company is internationally...

With the impending retirement of outgoing HellermannTyton South Africa Managing Director, Rod Dewing, changes have been made to ensure that the company continues to prosper. Claude Middleton has been announced...

The EVO family of cable tie tensioning tools are ergonomically designed to perfectly combine convenience with function, especially the EVO9. At the heart of the EVO9 is innovative, patent-pending Tension-Lock-Cut...

The Voltex Group strives to be at the forefront of technology developments and to harness its breadth of expertise to deliver the latest affordable, accessible and sustainable electrical innovations to...

Members of the lighting industry recently gathered for an information session in Pretoria held jointly by the National Regulator for Compulsory Speciﬁcations (NRCS), the Department of Energy (DoE) and the United...

In two recently published proﬁles of electrical contractors in Sparks Electrical News, both electricians said the one tool they could not live without, was a multimeter. Digital multimeters are designed...

Kruben Bennie, Head of Business Unit – Low Voltage Control Products at Siemens, is passionate about many things, including empowering South Africa’s youth and the possibilities digitalization can offer the...

Electronic Motor Protection relays are designed for motor applications where efficiency and reliability are essential. From simple or basic protection to advanced motor protection applications, they use dedicated functions and...

Growing concern for public safety and the increasing complexity of today’s fixed electrical installations in domestic, commercial and industrial premises places extra responsibility on electrical test engineers who are charged...

Industries that work with large volumes of cables and are in need of cable traceability and identification can increase production efficiency with Brady Corporation’s complete and automated cable identification solutions.

With over two decades in the industry, Marcel Kelly, Sales Engineer at Woodbeam, a local company delivering substation protection, metering, auxiliary relaying, SCADA, and automation and Ethernet networking systems and...